Large, prosperous churches contributed huge sums of money to help Proposition 8 pass. They must be feeling that their efforts and their investments were successful. Is this an example of "the people have spoken," as stated by your letter-writers?
There is another aspect of the sacred institution of marriage for heterosexuals exclusively that bewilders me. Why do more than 50 percent of these sacred commitments end in divorce, sometimes multiple times? Maybe there is something about the word "sacred" that I am not understanding.
-- Doris Vernon, Camarillo